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A91711 A Return to the priests about Beverley for their advisement. 1654 (1654) Wing R1185; Thomason E727_12; ESTC R206822 12,015 15

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A Return to the Priests ABOUT BEVERLEY For Their ADVISEMENT I Having received a printed Book which is full of untruths and lyes come out of the generation of Lyars and Serpents and full of subtilty and treachery to deceive the simple with their Witchcraft and Sorcery But God hath discovered your design and he will gather his Sheep and Lambs from your mouths and you shall no more devour them The Lord is come and coming to teach his people by his Spirit and hath poured forth his Spirit and doth pour it forth that his Sons and Daughters begin to prophecy and do which makes the Teachers of the world to rage who never heard a word from the Lord but speak a divination of their own brain which the Lord is altogether against who have lived in the form of the letter and not in the Power men of corrupt minds to resist the truth as Iannes and Iambres did 2 Tim. 3.8 When the Children of Israel were to come out of Egypt they resisted as they did in the time of the Apostles who had the form but are reprobate concerning the faith So it is now with the worldly Teachers who are made Ministers by the will of man do resist the Truth now as they did having the Form denying the Power for the Power brings out of darkness out of Egypt out of Pride and Oppression and shakes the Earth and cleaves the Rocks and throws down the Mountains and makes the seed to come forth which is the marvellous Work of the Lord which makes the Heathen to rage and full of fury to see the wondrous Works of the Lord brought forth The Title of the Book is A faithful Discovery of a treacherous Design of mystical Antichrist displaying Christs Banners but attempting to lay waste Scriptures Churches Christ Faith Hope c. and establish Paganism in England containing an Examination of many Doctrines of the People called Quakers in York-shire together with a Censure of their Way and several Items concerning the design of God Satan and Man These things recommended to the consideration of them who are in good earnest for Christ Friends Your printed Papers are considered and weighed with them that love Christ and they are found false and you to be Lyars uttering forth your unfaithful D●scovery for you are the mystical Antichrist which you speak of and your design is treacherous and found false and weighed in the Ballance and found too light And as touching laying waste Scriptures it is your own condition take it to your shame for the Scripture saith Thou shalt not lye there you lay waste Scripture and are blind and cannot see but are false Accusers and accuse men falsly and found Lyars and the Scriptures are fulfilled upon you The Scriptures we own are ours and stand for and own to be fulfilled and fulfilling in us but all you that make a Trade of the Scriptures which were spoken forth freely such are slanderers of Christ and his Church and lay waste Scriptures and both establish Paganism in England and have established it who know not God nor his Church but have called a Steeplehouse a Church and sprinkling Infants their Baptism which they baptize into their Faith into their Church which there is no Scripture for Now all people see if this be not laying waste Scripture and establishing Popery which God never commanded and to the establishing of this mystical Antichrist which hath long stood but now God is coming to throw it down and unestablish it Are not those Antichrists who walk contrary to Christs Commands and term themselves to be Ministers of Christ who walk out of his steps Christ Jesus when he spoke to the multitude and to his Disciples he said By their fruits ye shall know them They are called of men Masters and have the chiefest places in the Assemblies lay heavy burdens upon the people stand praying in the Synagogues devouring widows houses But Christ forbids these things and bids his Disciples not to be so but cryed Wo against them And such are established in the Land now who would dethrone Christ if they could And you are in that same generation which was ever against Christ and as the Scribes and Pharisees who would have dethroned him and never could own him in that nature you dwell in who gave forth these printed Papers And as touching Faith and Hope we do deny that which holds up such things as Christ doth forbid which is no faith nor no hope but of the hypocrites which shall perish and all such hope was ever denyed with the Elect Faithful And the worlds Church do we deny which is a house of stone but faith which is the gift of God we own which purifies the heart which faith is but one and who are of faith are of Abraham and this we witness to be fulfilled and not denyed And Hope that purifies the heart we own but the hope of the hypocrites we deny which saith He must live in sin so long as he is here and doth not purifie that we deny The Church of God we own which is the Pillar and Ground of Truth which Christ hath purchased with his own blood which is without spot or blemish But as to call a Steeplehouse a house of stone a Church is blasphemy and you that do so lay waste Scripture for the Church is in God 1 Thes 1.1 And Christ did not come to redeem a Steeplehouse nor to hold up such things but to redeem his people from such things that be carnal which you Pagans now establish And as touching that we deny Christ it is false it is your own conditions for read Matth. 23. and there you may see your own conditions walking in their steps which Christ forbids Pharisee-like and such are Antichrists and there you shew your selves to be Antichrists in the mystery of iniquity being called of men Masters when Christ forbids to call any man Master or to be called of men Master But that Christ we own who cryed Wo unto them which were called of men Masters and had the chiefest places in the Assemblies and the uppermost rooms at Feasts and greetings and salutations in the Markets which the Lord Jesus Christ cryed Wo against and taught his Disciples not to be so But all such as hold up these things which Christ forbids we deny which he did deny Praised be the Lord God who hath given us the light to see your abominations and led us from your snares which causeth you mischievous men to vent forth your mischief against the Truth and utter forth your folly but as Solomon saith so are fools known who are at Beverley but God Almighty be praised who hath given us a sight to see your deceits and to comprehend you who are deceived and would deceive but your formal ways are layd open and your shame and nakedness doth appear and to us it is very serviceable that you have put your folly in print and do publish it abroad who are